CHAPTER 344: CHAPTER 1: POWER

After several months, Yan Luo finally returned to Crimson No.2.

Dealing with those experts and professors took him a lot of effort, they seemed like they wanted to ask him about every single detail of what he knew.

If Yan Luo hadn’t refused any interviews, it might have been even more troublesome.

Yan Luo was the major contributor to the elimination of the Forbidden Demon Abyss, with his achievements only second to Wu Zechuan’s.

The Hunters who joined the expedition team to hunt the Master of the Abyss alongside Yan Luo have widely spread Yan Luo’s deeds.

If it weren’t for Yan Luo at the time, it might have required sacrificing lives to kill that Master of the Abyss, and even then it might not have been possible to kill it.

As a result, the general public in Lingquan City holds Yan Luo in high esteem.

Yan Luo has a very distinctive look, and to find him, you first have to look for tall and robust people on the street, then recognize him by his face.

Just his ’height’ alone can rule out many potential candidates.

Now, as long as Yan Luo appears on the streets of Lingquan City, he will definitely be recognized, and many people will seek to take photos with him and ask questions, making Yan Luo extremely annoyed.

Even though Yan Luo repeatedly emphasized that he didn’t welcome such behavior, there were still many people who insisted on doing things their way.

Helpless, Yan Luo could only shrink back home, not stepping out at all.

Even so, some enthusiastic fans would chase to his doorstep, and some neighbors he wasn’t very familiar with would become more cordial.

Coupled with the ’Evil God’s Mark’ issue, Yan Luo would receive at least thirty harassing phone calls a day, and six or seven Hunters would come to disturb him at his door.

So after resolving all matters in Lingquan City, Yan Luo immediately fled back to Crimson No.2 from Lingquan City.

Although the residents of Crimson No.2 also have a good impression of Yan Luo, since they often interact with the Hunters and know their boundaries, getting along with residents of Crimson No.2 makes Yan Luo feel a bit more comfortable.

Apart from family and friends, Yan Luo didn’t tell anyone about his return to Crimson No.2, and yet, within the first hour of his quiet return to Crimson No.2, a Hunter came to visit.

Yan Luo didn’t respond, letting the Hunter wait outside on his own.

After more than half an hour, the Hunter standing outside finally couldn’t hold it and left on his own accord.

At this time, Yan Luo began pondering over the ’institutionalization of Evil God’s Mark granting,’ because if he does nothing, he will continue to be harassed, and this isn’t a solution.

After returning to Crimson No.2, Yan Luo rested for a few days, during which he carefully considered and sought opinions from people around him, coming up with an ’Evil God’s Mark granting system.’

Since the Evil God’s Mark he obtained was ’Frenzy,’ he could get stronger with slaughter, much like a protagonist in a game.

However, the Evil God’s Mark didn’t require killing demons to become stronger, meaning it could also involve killing people.

To avoid creating a murderer, before granting the Evil God’s Mark, Yan Luo would personally assess the character of the person wanting to receive the mark and consider the evaluations of people around them to decide whether to grant the Evil God’s Mark.

Having figured out how to grant the Evil God’s Mark, Yan Luo had someone create software for him, primarily to collect the list of people wanting to gain the Evil God’s Mark, with only Hunters qualified to register on it.

After registering, applicants must send the report generated by the software to people they know, allowing them to fill out the form, which serves as the initial assessment.

Even someone as solitary as Yan Luo has a few friends around him, and if someone can’t even have a form filled out, it means they’re even more solitary than Yan Luo, if not a potential criminal, at least needing special observation.

The names of the applicants will appear in the software, open to evaluation by the Hunters of Crimson No.2 and local residents. Yan Luo filters out extreme evaluations, trying to take the average, which is the second step of assessment.

Then comes the interview, which is the final and most important step of the assessment.

Yan Luo has a veto power; if an applicant doesn’t pass Yan Luo’s assessment, no matter how high their scores in previous assessments, they cannot receive the Evil God’s Mark.

After all, Yan Luo has an ability akin to mind-reading that allows him to sense others’ true emotions.

As the saying goes, one can know a person’s face but not their heart, and no one knows if a person’s actions are all performances and don’t represent their genuine thoughts.

But Yan Luo can get a rough idea of their inner thoughts.

If someone truly manages to deceive the public and Yan Luo, then Yan Luo can’t do anything about it.

Once the software was completed, Yan Luo directly released it to the Crimson No.2 Hunter community, causing an uproar.

Many Hunters in Crimson No.2 knew that Yan Luo had obtained something called the ’Evil God’s Mark,’ which would make him stronger through killing, equivalent to a demon eating twice.

The prerequisite for being granted the ’Evil God’s Mark’ is to have received the Saint’s blood from Yan Luo; if someone can pass Yan Luo’s assessment, even if they haven’t obtained the Saint’s Blood before, they can obtain it through this opportunity.

The software called ’Evil God’s Mark Assessment’ triggered a lively discussion in the Hunter circle immediately upon release, with many people signing up right away.

While many Hunters were discussing, Yan Luo confirmed his Hunter identity online, then entered the Crimson Abyss.

The familiar red moonlight shone down on him once again, and after several months, Yan Luo felt a long-lost sense of nostalgia.

Yan Luo’s current magnetic field strength is about ten thousand horsepower, touching the lower limit of the Catastrophe Level, enough to contend with a giant earth elephant.

Very few Catastrophe Level demons appear in the Crimson Abyss; the last recorded one was the Thorn Bear.

Besides the Thorn Bear, probably only the Master of the Abyss is a Catastrophe Level entity.

For a demon to reach the Catastrophe Level, it likely requires something extra; otherwise, it can’t explain why the Second Rank Engraver can only gain spirituality after slaying Catastrophe Level demons, but not with those below Catastrophe.

What demons might need to become Catastrophe Level is perhaps ’spirituality.’

But where does ’spirituality’ come from? From the Master of the Abyss?

Yan Luo couldn’t help but recall the Thorn Bear; when they pried the ruby from its chest, its strength weakened rapidly, a situation other Catastrophe Level demons don’t experience.

Even though Yan Luo understood the origin of the Abyss, there remains much mystery in the Abyss for him.

As Yan Luo thought, he drove his motorcycle towards the Crescent Mountain Range.

He had explored the Dark Forest, the Worn Iron Hills, the Blood Lake, the Bone-Eroding Plain, and the Illusionary Underground Palace, but he hadn’t officially explored the Crescent Mountain Range.

Therefore, he wanted to see the Crescent Mountain Range and hunt demons to further strengthen himself.

For the current Yan Luo, even if he could completely eat a Dangerous-level demon, the magic power it could provide would be quickly digested, and even a Fatal-level demon is similar.

Only City-breaking Level demons, when eaten by Yan Luo, can provide magic power that takes him some time to digest.

Moreover, it’s impossible for Yan Luo to completely eat a demon.

Before he finishes eating it completely, the demon would die from severe injuries.

Driving his motorcycle through the Abyss, when encountering demons below Fatal-level, Yan Luo can’t be bothered to act, only handling them when encountering Fatal-level demons.

Slightly weaker City-breaking Level demons can’t last more than a few moves against Yan Luo now, making Yan Luo realize his own current strength.

The flesh and blood of the Master of the Forbidden Demon Abyss continuously proliferated, and he kept eating it, possibly consuming about five complete City-breaking Level demons; if not for the cooperation of the amplification gemstone powder, Yan Luo wouldn’t have been able to eat so much.

During the devouring process, Yan Luo’s digestive system became stronger than before, with ordinary food being immediately digested as soon as it lands in his stomach, and the conversion efficiency of food is much higher than before.

Now ordinary food can provide more than five times the energy and nutrition it used to!

For this reason, ordinary food now can provide Yan Luo’s body with sufficient nutrition, keeping his appetite not much different from before.

Yan Luo has already adjusted his bodily structure to be suitable for magnetic field self-sustenance; next, he needs to figure out how to enable his body to synthesize starch automatically, so he can fill his belly just by drinking the northwest wind.

Only by doing so can he eliminate his weaknesses and gradually become a flawless strongman.